Wicked Tops 2004 Drama Desk Nominations
Nominations for the 2004 Drama Desk Awards were announced at the New York Friars Club on April 29 by Mary-Louise Parker and Tony Roberts. Wicked earned the most nominations with a total of 11, including Outstanding Musical. The ceremony, hosted by Hairspray star Harvey Fierstein, will be held on May 16 at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.
Here are some notes on this year's awards:
--Two hits from early in the season--Avenue Q and Golda's Balcony--were ineligible because they were nominated for last year's awards for their off-Broadway runs.
--The Drama Desk committee awarded no Broadway play other than I Am My Own Wife an Outstanding Play nomination. All six Outstanding Play nominees played off-Broadway. I Am My Own Wife transferred to the Lyceum from Playwrights Horizons.
--The critically acclaimed National Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, which recently opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, did not pick up any nominations, not even ones for stars Simon Russell Beale and Essie Davis, who received rave reviews.
--Frozen's Swoosie Kurtz, considered by many to be in the running for a Best Actress Tony Award, did not receive a Drama Desk nomination. Instead nominations went to two other possible Best Actresss Tony contenders Eileen Atkins and Phylicia Rashad and three actresses for off-Broadway plays Bug's Shannon Cochran, Intimate Apparel's Viola Davis, Trojan Women's Lizan Mitchell and Sarah, Sarah's J. Smith-Cameron.
--The Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors only received one nomination and that was for leading man Hunter Foster. The production itself did not receive an Outstanding Revival of a Musical nod.
Here is a complete list of nominees:
Outstanding Play
The Beard of Avon by Amy Freed
The Distance From Here by Neil LaBute
Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
Moby Dick by Julian Rad
The Tricky Part by Martin Moran
Outstanding Musical
Caroline, or Change
Johnny Guitar
The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
Wicked
Outstanding Revival of a Play
The Colleen Bawn
The Daughter-in-Law
Henry IV Lincoln Center Theater
A Midsummer Night's Dream Watermill Theatre production from Propeller/BAM
The Normal Heart
A Raisin in the Sun
Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Assassins
Big River
Fiddler on the Roof
Finian's Rainbow
First Lady Suite
Wonderful Town
Outstanding Actor in a Play
John Michael Higgins, Big Bill
Kevin Kline, Henry IV
Frank Langella, Match
Brian F. O'Byrne, Frozen
Christopher Plummer, King Lear
Paul Sparks, Blackbird
Outstanding Actress in a Play
Eileen Atkins, The Retreat from Moscow
Shannon Cochran, Bug
Viola Davis, Intimate Apparel
Lizan Mitchell, Trojan Women
Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
J. Smith-Cameron, Sarah, Sarah
Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Hunter Foster, Little Shop of Horrors
Tyrone Giordano, Big River
Hugh Jackman, The Boy from Oz
Michael McElroy, Big River
Alfred Molina, Fiddler on the Roof
Euan Morton, Taboo
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked
Judy McLane, Johnny Guitar
Idina Menzel, Wicked
Donna Murphy, Wonderful Town
Elaine Paige, Sweeney Todd
Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Ned Beatty, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Michael Berry, Moby Dick
Andre De Shields, Prymate
Aidan Gillen, The Caretaker
John Lithgow, Mrs. Farnsworth
Corey Stoll, Intimate Apparel
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Jayne Houdyshell, Well
Mikel Sarah Lambert, The Daughter-in-Law
Margo Martindale, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Jan Maxwell, Sixteen Wounded
Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun
Mary Louise Wilson, The Beard of Avon
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Joel Blum, Golf: The Musical
Jeffrey Carlson, Taboo
Raul Esparza, Taboo
Mitchel David Federan, The Boy from Oz
Marc Kudisch, Assassins
Raymond Jaramillo McLeod, Wonderful Town
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Lovette George, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
Isabel Keating, The Boy from Oz
Alix Korey, Listen to My Heart
Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change
Jennifer Simard, The Thing About Men
Mary Testa, First Lady Suite
Outstanding Director of a Play
Hilary Adams, Moby Dick Works Productions
Dexter Bullard, Bug
Edward Hall, A Midsummer Night's Dream Watermill Theatre production from Propeller/BAM
Moises Kaufman, I Am My Own Wife
Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun
Jack O'Brien, Henry IV LCT
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Jeff Calhoun, Big River
Pamela Hunt, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
Joe Mantello, Assassins
Joe Mantello, Wicked
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
George C. Wolfe, Caroline, or Change
Outstanding Choreography
Stephen Hues, Ramayana 2K3
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jerry Mitchell, Never Gonna Dance
Anthony van Laast and Farak Khan, Bombay Dreams
Outstanding Music
RaRa Avis and Andrew Yeater, at al; Ramayana 2K3
Boy George, Taboo
Eric Rockwell, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
Stephen Schwartz, Wicked
Martin Silvestri and Joel Higgins, Johnny Guitar
Jeanine Tesori, Caroline, or Change
Outstanding Lyrics
Joanne Bogart, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
Boy George, Taboo
Sean Hartley, Cupid and Psyche
Joel Higgins, Johnny Guitar
Stephen Schwartz, Wicked
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Winnie Holzman, Wicked
Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change
Outstanding Orchestrations
William David Brohn, Wicked
Michael Starobin, Assassins
Harold Wheeler, Never Gonna Dance
Outstanding Set Design of a Play
John Lee Beatty, Twentieth Century
Scott Bradley, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Ralph Funicello, Henry IV LCT
David Korins, Blackbird
Andrew Lieberman, Wintertime
Derek McLane, I Am My Own Wife
Outstanding Set Design of a Musical
John Lee Beatty, Wonderful Town
Robert Brill, Assassins
Eugene Lee, Wicked
Tom Pye, Fiddler on the Roof
Mark Thompson, Bombay Dreams
Outstanding Costume Design
Jess Goldstein, Henry IV LCT
Susan Hilferty, Wicked
Robert A. Prior and Lisa Leighton, Ramayana 2K3
Jenny Mannis, Animal Farm
Mark Thompson, Bombay Dreams
Catherine Zuber, Intimate Apparel
Outstanding Lighting Design
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eishenhauer, Assassins
TJ Gerckens, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Donald Holder, The Violet Hour
David Lander, I Am My Own Wife
Brian MacDevitt, Henry IV
Kenneth Posner, Wicked
Outstanding Sound Design
Mark Bennett, Henry IV LCT
Scott Jennings, Ramayana 2K3
Brian Ronan, Bug
Dan Moses Schreier, Assassins
David Van Tieghem, The Stendhal Syndrome
Outstanding Solo Performance
Barbara Cook, Barbara Cook's Broadway
Ben Gazzara, Nobody Don't Like Yogi
Sarah Jones, Bridge and Tunnel
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife
Martin Moran, The Tricky Part
Will Power, Flow
Unique Theatrical Experience
Ramayana 2K3
Todd Robbins' Carnival Knowledge
Toxic Audio in Loud Mouth
Outstanding Ensemble Performance
The cast of The Distance From Here
Special Awards
Dakin Matthews for his adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV
The Flea Theater
The Classical Theatre of Harlem
Productions with two or more nominations:
Wicked - 11
Assassins - 7
Henry IV - 7
Caroline, or Change - 6
Wonderful Town - 6
I Am My Own Wife - 5
Ramayana 2K3 - 5
Taboo - 5
Bombay Dreams - 4
Big River - 4
Johnny Guitar - 4
A Raisin in the Sun - 4
The Boy From Oz - 3
Bug - 3
Fiddler on the Roof - 3
Intimate Apparel - 3
Moby Dick Works Productions - 3
The Beard of Avon - 2
Blackbird - 2
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - 2
The Daughter-in-Law - 2
The Distance From Here - 2
First Lady Suite - 2
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2
Never Gonna Dance - 2
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - 2
The Tricky Part - 2
